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  • RECRUIT THE A-TEAM

    IT’S GENERALLY believed that after a certain amount of time spent working the phones, telephone representatives burn out. I maintain that reps are more

  • Will Fallout From Sweeps Lawsuits Affect Response to Consumer Mailings?

    THE RECENT CONTROVERSY over the American Family Publishers and Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes contests will cause problems next year for both magazine

  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • Directnewsline

    USPS Unveils Holiday Mail Plans THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, with the aid of major mailers, has developed fall and holiday mailing plans that it hopes will

  • Spare Parts Central

    HYUNDAI Motor America hopes to sell spare parts and build its $150-million-a-year North American business through an extranet system for dealers.The Korean

  • Singing a National Anthem

    AFTER AN ENCOURAGING test launch in California and the Pacific Northwest, cataloger Moon Song went national last month with a 100,000-piece mailing.Owner

  • Calling All Rare Talents

    To all of you multi-disciplined creatives who still can’t decide what you want to be when you grow up or can’t describe your occupation in that little

  • Is Advertising Dead?

    Let’s play a game of Is It Advertising or Promotion?Coca-Cola commits some $50 million of its marketing budget to cash prizes for consumers who find ATM